The protagonist of Code Geass: Akito the Exiled. A pilot of the special unit W-0 of the E.U., Akito is amongst the many Japanese who were displaced to Europe following Britannia's invasion, where he is no more welcome to his new European superiors than the Britannian colonialists.

Abel And Cain: Akito and Shin are brothers and are trying to kill one another.

Ax-Crazy: Clearly - he's reckless to the point of being suicidal (his true goal anyway), enjoys battle a little too much, can be very cynical and ruthless, and when he isn't any of those things, he's borderline emotionless who tries to hide it with sarcasm. All that coupled with the fact that he sees dead people, all definite signs that he's mentally unstable to a degree. He eventually grows out of it thanks to his newfound friends.

Elevated in the second episode, where his Blood Knight tendencies rub off on the delinquents (due to his Knightmare's BRS system syncing their minds to his Geass ). More so than anything else however, is the look he gave Leila when he swore he'd kill his brother. The poor girl was frozen stiff.

Blood Knight: Akito seems just a bit too happy when taking on enemy Knightmares. Granted the fact that he can't die, it's probably the only way for him to vent his frustrations & have some fun.

Broken Hero: At the start of the series, he still hasn't mentally recovered from his brother killing the rest of his family and attempting to Geass him to death.

Character Development: He slowly undergoes this in episode 3, where reuniting with his brother and a few talks (and a fist fight) with his new comrades and Leila seems to change his mindset a bit. He is still a Death SeekerAx-Crazy, but he does appreciate people around him more.

And in episode 4, he starts breaking free from his brother's Geass command, becoming a full-fledged hero instead of a brutal Ax-Crazy killer, and is even willing to befriend a former enemy.

Combat Pragmatist: When fighting Knightmare to Knightmare, he doesn't aim for the mech. He aims for the cockpit.

Short Hair with Tail: He's had the style since he was a kid apparently. He even cuts the tail off so Leila can have something to bury in the worst case scenario before the last mission, but is seen to have grown it back later on.

Slasher Smile: Several of them. This trait starts to go away in later episodes.

Stock Underwear: He wears boxer briefs and a sleeveless undershirt to bed at night as revealed in episode 2.

The Stoic: Off the battlefield, he's a very quiet man bordering on emotionless, but he does at least display a sense of humor. During the later episodes, he begins to show more and more emotion, though he still remains calm and composed for the most part.

Not So Stoic: His brother Shin provokes this reaction from him. Justified: When your arch-enemy and big brother tried using Psychic-Assisted Suicide on you, you're not exactly going to be happy to see him again.

Action Girl: Leila is accomplished in aikido and possibly jujutsu, which she demonstrates to anyone unfortunate enough to think she's a soft target.

Adorkable: Slips into this sometimes around Akito because she's interested in him and his country's culture. It comes out even more in episode 3 when she's trying (and failing) to help out with chores around the gypsy caravan.

Big Brother Bully: The youngest of her older brothers, Johann, treats her as a concubine due to his hatred of the idea that he will be forced to marry her at his father's behest. Subverted with her two other brothers Daniel and Stefan, who are both Nice Guys. Subverted when it's revealed that Johann does care for her at heart too.

Dark and Troubled Past: Her biological parents were killed on two separate incidents on the same day. A terrorist planted a bomb while her father gave a speech to the public and her mother died in a car crash later that day.

Defector from Decadence: Leila is the child of Britannian nobles who disagreed with the Britannian system and defected to the democratic E.U.

Feminine Women Can Cook: Inverted. She's the most feminine character and she doesn't know anything about cooking since she led a comfortable with servants doing the cooking.

Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Episode 2 has her in a skintight pilot suit for half the movie that does a bang-up job of showing off her figure.

Girly Run: During the last portion of the series, she does this to catch up with Akito.

Heroic B.S.O.D.: Suffers from one during Episode 4 where she believes Akito had died. Though since they were under invasion at the time, she gets back up after some pep talk from Claus. Afterwards though, she silently cries to herself in her room. That said, she eventually comes to the belief that he's alive, and it's proven by the end.

Magical Eye: Episode 3 reveals that she contracted with C.C. as a child. However, due to the contract being "incomplete", she doesn't manifest her true power until the final episode, which reveals that her Geass can connect people's consciousnesses to each other, a reflection of her desire for people to understand each other.

Nice Girl: She's one of the few characters with a pleasant demeanor, as long as you aren't a jerkass.

Fire-Forged Friends: With Akito and Leila by the time of the middle half of the story, though more with the former.

Hidden Depths: Despite his bravado, he admits that he only really wants to find a home for himself and his two friends; he grows to enjoy the company of the old Roma women near Warsaw precisely because their caravan becomes something of a second home to him and the rest of Wyvern.

Hot-Blooded: To the point he's the sort of guy who uses punching to settle arguments without any real ill will behind it.

Irony: He was in charge of a group that had, get this, eleven members. This in a series where Japanese are called Elevens.

Pet the Dog: He becomes sympathetic towards Akito after finding out that Akito's brother irrationally wanted him killed, with the two eventually becoming good friends.

Shipper on Deck: During Episode 3, the look on his face says it all as he prevents Ayano from following after Leila who chases after Akito into the woods.

An Japanese terrorist from Ryo's group who ends up being "recruited" into W-0's Wyvern Squad.

Absolute Cleavage: For some reason, she spent the early portion of episode 3 with her uniform opened, so everyone can see her chest. Which makes you wonder why she's embarrassed of being stripped naked by old ladies, while indoor.

Ancestral Weapon: Has a blade passed down to her from her samurai ancestry. She later decides to let Akito keep it, in the hope that it'll bring him good luck.

Boobs of Steel: She's far more hands-on by comparison to Leila. Not to say that Leila isn't a good fighter herself, though; Ayano is just more likely to fight being a front-line soldier and all compared to Leila being a commander.

Evil Genius: His skills are so good he bypassed the security measures of a Glasgow and forged pilot credentials.

Freudian Excuse: The students he killed via planting a bomb in the school? A couple of them left him with a large scar spanning almost the full length of his hand.

Friendly Sniper: Both of his machines are long-ranged equipped, and after he mellows out to Akito and Leila, he more or less becomes this.

Heroic Sacrifice: It's implied that he tries this twice, but he lives through both attempts.

Mad Bomber: When not in a mecha bombs seem to be his Weapon of Choice, as he used them to take out his abusers prior to joining Ryo's crew and was ready to blow himself up as a means helping Ryo and Ayano more than once.

Pay Evil unto Evil: He bombed a school that had the same classmates who fucked up his hand. The evil part also comes from how he seemed unconcerned with any other students who weren't responsible for abusing him.

Playful Hacker: On a good day he's one of these, given his use of cutesy mascot characters when working and treating things like fun games. That said even at the best of times his sense of "fun" is very questionable, and likely terrifying, as lampshaded by Ayano.

The scientist who developed the Alexander Knightmare Frame and a childhood friend of Leila.

A-Cup Angst: In a Picture Drama, she reveals this to be the reason she was covering her chest area when she, Leila and Ayano get drunk off the smell of sake while soaking in a hot spring, though she claims that her chest is normal; Leila and Ayano's are just too big.

Knight in Sour Armor: Is unhappy with the EU's corrupt elite, but still believes in its revolutionary ideals. Actually, he just wants to become its emperor.

Manipulative Bastard: He's manipulated Leila and the youth of the military into believing he's a just man. He was able to convince the youth to initiate a coup by deceiving them into believing he's doing it for the sake of the Union and its people. He later uses Leila to inspire hope in the people during the riots and then to whip them into a unified frenzy by trying to make Leila into a martyr.

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